Environmental Philosophy

Environmental Philosophy
Ned Hettinger, Fall 2011

	Syllabus Schedule of Assignments Spring 2012 Philosophy Courses	Environmental Ethics Bibliography Environmental Studies Minor CofC Masters Environmental Studies CofC Office of Sustainability CofC Goldsworthy Site Paper Assignment & Topics Suggestions for Writing your Philosophy Paper Help with article search
Date	Reading Notes	Readings for Class	Miscellaneous
Tues, Dec 13, 8am: Final Exam	Final exam study questions
Tuesday, Dec 6th, 3pm (hard copy, 14 Glebe, 1st floor inside mailbox)	Papers on Aesthetics & Nature due	AESTHETICS AND NATURE
Thursday, Dec 1 (last day of class)	Parsons, Ch 9	Parsons, Ch 9: Art in Nature (128-140) Note: Skipping Ch 8
Tuesday Nov 29	Parsons, Ch 7	Parsons, Ch 7: Aesthetics and the Preservation of Nature (95-113)	Climate and having children International Climate Change Meeting this week
Tues, Nov 22	Parsons, Ch 6	Parsons, Ch 6: Nature and the Disembodied Aesthetic (81-94)
Friday, Nov 18, 3pm, hard copy to 14 Glebe 1st floor inside mailbox	Paper due (unless on Nature Aesthetics)
Thurs, Nov 17	Parsons, Ch 5	Parsons, Ch 5: Pluralism (66-80)	(Free quiz opportunities) Both Thursday, Nov 17 Deborah Cramer, "The Sea Around You: What Does the Health of the Sea Have to Do with Us?" Wes Jackson *Can Agriculture be Sustainable?*
Tues, Nov 15	Parsons, Ch 4	Parsons, Ch 4: Science and Nature Aesthetics (49-65)
Thurs, Nov 10:	Parsons, Ch. 3	Parsons, Ch 3: Formalism (34-48)	Dirt: The Movie (Monday Nov 14th)
Tues, Nov 8:	Parsons, Chapter Two	Parsons, Ch 2: Imagination, Belief, and the Aesthetics of Nature (18-33)	Ty Raterman, Bearing the Weight of the World: On the Extent of an Individual's Environmental Responsibility Dark Side of "Green" City NYT
Thurs, Nov 3:	Parsons, Introduction & Chapter One	Glenn Parsons, Aesthetics and Nature (Continuum, 2008) (hereafter “Parsons”), Ch 1: Approaching the Philosophy of Natural Beauty (1-17)
		ANTHROPOCENTRISM, NONANTHROPOCENTRISM, CONVERGENCE?
Tues, Nov 1:	Jamieson, Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice	Dale Jamieson, “Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice,” Science and Engineering Ethics (2010) 16: 431–445	Articles about: How Harmful Are Individuals Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Friday, Oct 28	Paper Proposal Due	Email to hettingern@cofc.edu
Thur, Oct 27	Goldsworthy on human nature relationship	In Class Video: Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides	Video link: Rivers and Tides
Tues, Oct 25	Palmer, Does Nature Matter?	Clare Palmer, “Does Nature Matter? The Place of the Nonhuman in the Ethics of Climate Change,” in Denis Arnold, ed., The Ethics of Global Climate Change (Cambridge 2011), pp. 272-291	Articles about climate change denial
Thurs, Oct 20	McShane, Anthropocentrism vs Nonanthropocentrism: Why Care?	Katie McShane, “Anthropocentrism vs Nonanthopocentrism: Why Should we Care?” Environmental Values 2007, pp 169-185	Free Quiz opportunity, "Feeling Stone" Thurs Oct 20, 7pm Arnold Hall
Fall Break
Oct 13	Rolston, Converging vs Reconstituting	Holmes Rolston, “Converging versus Reconstituting Environmental Ethics” in Nature in Common, pp. 97-117
Oct 11	Minteer, Nature in Common	Ben Minteer, Introduction to Nature in Common? pp. 1-13,
		ETHICS & CLIMATE CHANGE
Oct 6: Midterm Exam	Midterm Study Questions (Complete)
Oct 4	Sandler, The Problem of Inconsequentialism	Ron Sandler, “Ethical Theory and the Problem of Inconsequentilism: Why Environmental Ethicists Should be Virtue-Oriented Ethicists"	Do Individual Acts Help Save the Planet?
Sept 29	Sinnott-Armstrong, Not My Fault	Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “It’s Not My Fault,”in Gardner, pp. 332-346.	Going Green but Getting Nowhere
Sept 22, 27	Gardner, Geoengineering the Lesser Evil?	Stephen Gardner, “Is ‘Arming the Future’ with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil?: Some Doubts about the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System” in Gardner, pp. 284-312	David Keith, "Should we Engineer the Planet?" (video)
Sept 20	Singer, "One Atmosphere"	Peter Singer “One Atmosphere,” in Gardner, pp. 181-199	Arctic Ice Hits Near Record Low
Sept 15	Caney, Climate Chage & Hunan Rights	Simon Caney, “Climate Change, Human Rights, and Moral Thresholds,” in Gardner, pp. 163-177	Presidential Candidate Views on Climate Change
Sept 13	Shue, Deadly Delays	Henry Shue, “Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?” in Gardner, pp. 146-162.	Slow Stirrings Among Conservatives on Adaptation -- Just Don't Mention Climate Change
Sept 8	Parfit, The Identity Problem	Derek Parfit, “Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem,” in Gardner, pp. 112-121	Arrested to protest climate change National Climate Seminar Who is the World's Biggest Polluter? Lomborg's website Lomborg reverses course
Sept 6		No new reading; finish the Gardner reading below.	Bike Friendly Charleston Events (Wed/Thurs, Sept 7-8) About Mia Birk (cycling advocate) (Birk's Wed 5:30 CofC talk is a free quiz opportunity)
Sept 1	Gardner, Ethics & Climate Change	Stephen Gardner, “Ethics and Global Climate Change" in Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, & Henry Shue, Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) (hereafter, “Gardner”), pp. 3-35	Some climate change facts
		ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS
August 30	Hursthouse, Env Virtue Ethics	Rosalind Hursthouse, “Environmental Virtue Ethics”
August 25	Cafaro, Toward Env Virtue Ethics	Philip Cafaro, "Thoreau, Leopold, and Carson: Toward an Environmental Virtue Ethics"







			Critical Questions